Lord Martin Rees to chair the Prize.

Thirty years on from the publication of Roald Dahl's The Witches, Jemma Crew looks back to her childhood reading and recalls how the author reimagined the reality of adulthood for a whole generation of children.

Reviewed: Bad Machinery, by John Allison.

The American man of letters gives guidance to writers and journalists on both sides of the Atlantic.

There is a place for us.

The Books Interview.

Diamonds in the rough.

Woman’s hour.

British Sea Power's Yan speaks to the New Statesman about music, politics and Grand Designs Australia.

Absolute beginnings.

British women across the pond.

A tribute to the great American novelist Philip Roth at 80.

The lonely fate of the great composer's wife.

Staffs shortage.